THE PATE OF TE HEU-HEU.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1739, 21 June 1886, Page 2

THE PATE OF TE HEU-HEU.

On ithe , 7th May,^ 1&/; i^ gr*^ warrior chfcf Te Heu Heu was; ovetwhelmed and buried with his whole bapa, a section of the "Ngatituwharetoa, the calamity being aprecnrsor of the present great /cohjrufsipn* mi that it/ was salso caused^y volcanic energy displayed m bydr<Ptheruiai action. ■Te Raptf, } thi great chiefs pah, was situated to the south of Lake Taiipo, between Tokaano and Boto Aira, m a narrow ralley hemmed m byiJofty mountains. Tb« slope in^mediatelf ,hghin4,th* v village was covered Swth boiid ing springs, bling^nud ? puiaß, and volcanic^oenw, emitting jets of Bteamand sulphurous gases. The action of these had m the course of time completely destroj^d the basaltic rock of which the .mouhtaihjwras cqmposfefl, reducing it to a dißintegrateii mass of pulpVji; heavy rain hadSfallen all day, and m the middle of tlie night the whole hulMdejcoilapßed,overwhebii. ing the whole settlement; "^With Te Heuheu perished his six wives and 54 other persons* th« only living beiries who escaped being a young man of the hapa and a^horse. Tourists are still shown the hillsideffr-om whpre the earth slipped/ and the supposed.l ocation of;ft^e v/ e&S gulphed remains of him and bis tribe.