HAUHAU REVENGE.

Tauranga Argus and Opotiki Reporter, Volume 1, Issue 4, 15 December 1866, Page 2

HAUHAU REVENGE.

In order to iliustrate the bitter feehngs of the Hauhaus residing in the neighborhood of the Wairoa Carap, it is snfiieient simply to state the fact that shdrtly after the return of the expeditionary force from Minden

Peak, the feiv uatives residing at a settlement at the Mill on the Wairoa river had oecasion to visifc Mr. Commissioner Maekay at Te Papa. The Hauhaus hearing bf this, and feelirrg- no little chagrined at the attitude which the natives had taken in furthering the objects oi" that expedition, deliberately went to the Mill and took away by force the wife of the ehief Haniuera te Paki, a young iftteresting woman, juSton the eve of confinement, much against her will, (for her lamentations vvere to be heard on the opposite side of the river), Poor Ilamnera or. hearing this whilst/at Te Papa became perfectly frantic, and might be seen wandering about pitifully deplovmg his loss, observiug very feehngiy to those who knew him that this was the " second wife wlf ch had been seized and taken away from him,'' ' (the pakehas having run away with his first wife) and now the Hauhaus with his ptesenfc wife ; hut says he ''I will not lose tny wife, I will follow lier even to the place wliere she is incarcerated and then, I will die or perish by 'her sidb ; but I will have her.:> For this purpose he started and reoched the . Hauhau settlement at Waiwhatavvhaav and i was at once made prisoner. He was afterwards tried and the sentence of death recorded. His popr wife on hearing - this became deranged, which: so affeeted these hardened savages- that his sentericewas • eommuted on the understanding tha ; he would consent to emhrace the Hauhau faitliand when with them to'share their fortunes in war against the Europeans, &e It is * needless to say that Hamuer.i aecepted the new faith in preference to losing the number of his mess, ready at some future time to take advantage in once more being able to live peaceab'sy at the old settlement at the Mill.