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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 307, 15 September 1875, Page 2

The Lyttelton Times says that ‘off* Sunday;’ 'BstPAugliiif;' Maori Church, Woodepd, Canterbury, the Rev. G. P. Mutu 5 Maori minister of the district,’ 'bffityiateri lit the ’ bttptiste clff two.infants; l to,twx> EngliphJfa|piliM| im Woodend, line ceremony was lhu vgreatetei. sotemwty J>y the reverend gentleman, who read the (baptismal 'tfeHide ih 3 English. The [Maori children, ( representing th® 'choir, were appropriately garbed, the beys, andi girlr beingL dressed ia destinctive colours. The minister*®son; a elever little hoy, whx> .has? Mil the promise of a future gpod. .musican, presided at' the harmonitigl, land IccL- the, sjpgmg in a highly [creditable manner, playing with great [taste and wonderrnl coolness and Iprttetedtt fdte Bti'yoti’fig a'performed. [This is the first instance recorded in (this island, and-> probably in New Zealand; of an ordained Maori [minister ’baptizing, S'ii his ort church, thp children of the Pakeh® brought to him for open adtoission'info the church. ■ j Colonel ■■Hamilton Rewarded.—A reward of £lO9 >per.annum for distinguished spryicc has beep bestowed by the Field-Marshal ’ Comitending-in-ebief bn Colonel Hill Hamilton, C.B. He served tlie.E a lter“,.<»mppigp 0f1854-5, as Deputy Assistant Quatermaster-G eneral from October, 1855 including the battle of Alma, capture ef B»l®cW*,. siege-, -and • fall of Sebastopol (mentioned,,, in despatches, medal with three clasps,' brevet'of major liejjtepaut-ebloneL Fifth Class of the Medjldie, and Turkish medal); ' commauded the 12th Regiment (during the New Zealand war or 1863-6; was present with' the'forrts - finder Sir Duficsn Cameron, throughout the Waikato (campaign, and until the termination of Hostilities under Sir Trevor Chute. 06mm|anded An expeStfotiary force to Te Rori and surroundingdistrict; occupied (and destroyed the strongly-fortified, positions of Pateraaga and Pikopiko, and other strongholds between TeKori And Raglan; subsequently commanded the troops in the East Coast district, and made several'expeditions'against the destroying the villages of Patetere.'Whai, Whatawhata, Irieanga, ’ And Wbakampraina; eventually driving out all hostile natives, and establishing tranquility. .