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■'_, ■ .: I thy Anglwri .i-iitiii'.eji .n~ Ki-abii j-'-omowd, u> d J, A. Thom-.is v.-uo i-lectori i l- i'jr Mibu.toru vic-'iLi-uienant Vt i.ii.O'k ;esiu;nsd. — Settler. A writer in the Auckland Herald, «hoee history ii evidently defective, says:—lt remained fur ths Auckland Rifle Volunteers in the ytar 1863 to have the honour (it there was any honour ia It) of being the first corps under fire in the British domi&ione, so thai - , from a m litary or volunteering point of \i:W it wts a very notable event. The Bat'Jo of Waireki was fought on the 28* March, 1860, when the Taracaki VolunUe:s «'(; re engaged md had sev.iil reea killed and woundtd.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 229, 24 October 1903, Page 4
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109UNKNOWN Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 229, 24 October 1903, Page 4
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