1 I We extract the following anecdotes of the war ! in the North from recent numbers of the Canterbury Press: — "In the midst of this miserable war one turns to anything like chivalry and romance with singular pleasure. The following scraps came from the pen of a Northern correspondent : — * In the escape from Orakau, a militiaman who was pursuing a Maori, cut him down with a slight flesh wound. When the soldier dismounted to take his man prisoner, or kill him should resistance compel it, he found that it was not a man whom he had cut down, but a pretty half-caste girl. He took her up, brought her to the surgeon, and had her cared for and tenderly nursed ; and now he has written to her brother, a Maori scholar in' St. Stephen's School, at Auckland, to ask her hand in marriage.' Here is another of the same character : ' After the fight at the Gate Pah at Tauranga,'one of the wounded officers who were left in the pah asked for a drink of water. A Maori went down to the swamp at the risk of his life to get a drop of water for his wounded enemy. The . Maori was shot, -by our men in the attempt and was token prisoner, and when the next day it was known on what errand he had been going" when "wounded, surgeon and men vied with one another ih doing all they could for him. But his leg had to be amputated, and the poor fellow died."' ;. 7' ": -7 Mr. Hately, the Government sheep ; inspector, has presented a return of the sheep and cattle landed at the Bluff and New River Harbors from October, 1863, to May; 1864, to> the deht, - which 'shows -that during ,tli*t ' perlod'-jthe total numbers imported were as follows :^-Slieep, *6,103; cattle, 3,189.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 18 August 1864, Page 3
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305Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 18 August 1864, Page 3
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