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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 April 1890, Page 2

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Sitting in. a whfti'eoa^thi.banki of the Ma'iawatu rivor, some, thirty years ago, tv/o Datives, an unoU and his nephew, arranged a sporting, «x---pedition for early the following morning. The Kaka is much esteemed by the Mao is, and they disp'ayed ;;■ oat aptitude in gnaring these pa 1 .'ot?r aud it was iv quest of this '■jam 7l , itiat the mm and toy left befo • d<\y b-oke. The, wnn, having »oleotc-.l the Rat» tree which offered the host p respect for s -access, loi'l the little ! d some distance in the bush, aud ososnded the tree to lie in wait for he v'.-tims. Patience is a ch;racteiiß'io of the race, and for a low» time did the native lie, perchrd high in the ai. : , securing t' « game, and for that ime the boy wrs left to 'iis own devices. W.ie'i the spo I w.s e'-do the mnn descended tin; ; cc aud called io his nephew. No r.nswe ing sb,out. was received, and no- effort on h^/part to find the k.d proved, s uccejssful,, On retu n ng to the Pah Li ♦ sad. tale was soon tod, a>d t' e hoy's father and his f lends sjoa "el the. bush in r U ■ directions ')ut unti: th« other. day no trace wrs ever found of the missin-r lad, k..ti wqekv^assvs Honor* and New'tli \vere* -walking over, .some fresh y b.T it b;'sh at. Heatjttrlea «loso to tbe boundary line of Mr Staff's Lnd, when they came across ihe bu:*nt bones of so;ne hWitfi* ""being, lyi >g atihe foot of a giant rimu tree. Tj* skull was in pleSies, and the lower jaw was perfect, but on being tiadhed soon crumbled to piece.. The ashes were., gaxefully le.'t. a^d enqvi:ieß were s?t on loot .o find what nativo they might belong to. An old man by name Ohaio, eti'l livin.or in the district claimed the ashes for those of his son, who in 1860 started with his uncle Hirini on this fatal expedition, that eve.y effort was made at the time to find tbe lad or his body, and that the search was not given up for two years, but not till now had a trace of them been found. Afte these many yeatfs the ashes ate^o 1 b inte-Ted : n a Chiistian manner.