OLD-TIMER’S DEATH
EARLY DAYS IN PIRONGIA SURVIVOR OF TRAGEDY Press Association . HAMILTON, Friday. Mr. John Peacocke, the «urvivor of a tragedy which occurred on the Pirongia Mountain in November, 1870, died in the Waikato Hospital to-day at the age of 79 years. At the time of the tragedy Mr. Peacocke was cook to a surveyor named Todd, who was camping in the bush on Pirongia. Todd had been ordered away by an angry Maori, but paid no heed to the warning. One day, therefore, the Maori crept up to the tent where Todd and Peacocke were sleeping, and shot at the surveyor, killing him. Peacocke crept under the tent wall and escaped into the bush. The native was afterwards caught and executed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 12
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