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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 232, 26 September 1873, Page 2

To the Editor of thk Nelson Evening Mail.

Pib, — For the information ol your correspondent " Enquirer," in your issue of last evening, I haste to inform him him that not only Rauparaha but his butcher, or fighting general, were both in Nelson shortly after the W -irau massacre. It may be well conceived that we looked upon them at the time with no pleasant feelings. I can remember keenly scanning Rauparaha's face; his low monkey forehead and his deep-set monkey eyes, in which you could read in every restless twinkle cunning and cruelty, as also cowardice. Rangihaeata was a man of more manly stamp and bearing; better formed head and face, tall, and very muscular, of powerful limb, bold, daring, fierce, and cruel, and when we looked at those powerful arms, arms of immense strength, and knew only too well that those arms had dfalt the death blow to so many of our friends, and also knew i ut too well that we were powerles* to interfere, our feelings a* Englishmen may be faintly imagined, but not told. I am, &c., Old Settleb. Nelson, September 24, 1873.