SURRENDER OF TE HEU HEU.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 October 1869, Page 6

SURRENDER OF TE HEU HEU.

Te Kooti Wounded. Napier, October 13, 9 p.tn. A despatch received from Colonel M‘Don nell, dated 9th October, reports the surrender of Te Heu Heu, with his uncle and a few followers. Information obtained from Te Heu Heu is attached. I have already directed M'Donnell to send Te Heu Heu down here and he is probably on bis way by this time. I shall send word now to M‘Donnell to accept of course the surrender of Natuaaka and the rest of the Taupo people, and to inform them that the Government are disposed to deal leniently with them, but must have a pledge of their good faith in the future. Our forces have gone after Te Kooti, and I hope we may have an account of him very shortly. The Hakaraia referred to is, I conclude, the troublesome Upper Waikato man.

The following is Te Heu Hen’s speech in answer to the chiefs of Ngatiluwharetoa : I have little to say. Bad, tribe, it was you who made the raid into the Uriwera country, and afterwards left me as food for Te Kooti. I was left alone and forsaken by you When I got to Tauranga I heard of the man who was killed. I then got frightened. Te Kooti came when I got back, and I was taken prisoner. I have been such ever since. I have fought against you, but what was I to do. I was a prisoner. I blame you for my misfortune. However, I have nothing more to say. Te Kouti is here in the bush, go and find him. In answer to Major Kemp, Te Heu Hen said : I aurre with most of what you have said. If you wish to send me to gaol, or the Chatham Islands, well and good. All you have done is fair and 1 have nothing to say against you. But Ido blame Hohepa Tamautu, and had he led the charge , on my power I should have aimed at him and shot him, as he is the sole cause of my misfortune. I have nothing more to say, your words are good. Te Heu Heu gives the following information : That Te Kooti stopped in the pah till just before it was taken, when, as ho was putting his hand into his waistcoat-pocket for caps, he was struck by a bullet which wounded his thumb and second finger, and cutting the third finger completely off, and also passing through the fleshy part of his side; and that, if we h d followed them up in the creek instead of the track, he would have been caught, us ho had no gun, and was going slowly owing to the pain of his hand. Kereki (Te Heu Heu’s uncle) left the pah with Te Kooti who has with him forty or fifty « hatham Islands people, and fifty Uriweras, including most of the Uriwera chiefs; namely :—Te Waru Warn, Paerau, Hopurano, Kook, Huniora (chief of Ahekereru), Te Makariru, Rakukuu, akua, and Te Kheru. He also says that Waenuanui was left with Te Waru’s men and the rest of Te Uriwera, to defend Waikarumoana; that this is the total of Te Kooti’s force now. The Chatham Islands men suffered severely in the late fight. Makuka has gone towards Tuhua for the purpose of collecting his women and children. Heu Heu thinks Te Kooti is at Whakapapu. Hakararia and the Pautere people are suit! to be on their way to join him. He and Te Kooti received a letter to that effect. This is all the information worth anything. Thomas M’Donnell. lATEST PARTICULARS. October 12. Telegrams from Napier stale that our forces art following Te Kooti upon the Wanganui River. Te Heu Heu is not yet come in. No doubt exists that it is the original Te Kooti, and the women say that Te Waru is with him. He had evidently intended to remain at Taupo, as he had commenced ploughing for potatoes close to where the fight took place, and had carts and horses there. Fifty-two dead bodies have been actually got in the three engagements The whole force did not exceed 260 men at first. There must have been many wounded, and Te Kooti must now be where both fond and ammunition will be scarce. — Mail. A LOYAL MAORI. The Hawke’s Bay Herald says: —“The following incident is related by one of the prisoners (since escaped) Te' Kooti captured on his way to visit the King. When Te Kooti and his party arrived at Te Hatepe pah, on the shores of Taupo Lake, the people were all absent about three or four miles away at the cultivations, excepting an old man named Hona, who bad food sent him daily by his people. On Te Kooti taking possession of the pah, be sent a messenger to Hona, requesting him to come in; but the old man refused to go, saying as his reason that he and his bapu and children, had always been staunch Government men, and therefore he would not obey Te Kooti s orders. The messenger then told him he had better go, otherwise Te Kooti would shoot him ; but the old man still refused, saying that .it signified not, be would not obey. On the old man’s answer being reported to Te Kooti, the messenger was sent back with instructions that, should Hona refuse to come, he was to be shot. Again the old man refused saying he preferred death. The messenger then asked where his people where. He | answered, some, perhaps, are at Patch ! (thirty miles away) and some perhaps at Napier. The messenger shot him through the body, but as that did not kill him at once he was shot through the head, and then hauled out into the middle of the pah, and the pah was then burnt and destroyed.”