MAORI HUMBUG.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 89, 27 May 1882, Page 163

MAORI HUMBUG.

A guileless nigger named Whitiora lias been gulling the special reporters at Whatiwhatihoe. The account -which this old rangatira gives of the , engagement at Rangiriri is that after the Maoris "scorched" the storming parties, William Thompson, the Maori Warwick, executed a judicious retrograde movement towards the base of operations, that when the smoke cleared away it appeared that the soldiers had " been blown to nothing,". and next morning, observing a flag of truce flying on board the, steamer, in the river, he (Whitiora) conceiving this to be an indication of . a desire for a cessation of hostilities, caused another whito flag to be hoisted on his side, and that thereupon, G-eneral Cameron with 50 men advanced into the redoubt and took the chief and his 200 armed followers prisoners of war ; in fact, Whitiora tries to make out that he was a victim, of misplaced confidence. If the old sinner tells such fibs as this he must expect to. be pretty well " scorched" when he passes from this world to tlte next. Howhecould;mdulgeln.sb.!ni^^'CQlbnia'l '^blowing" mfctdufc&bj^^ ' ' nothing" is a^ puzzi4%|i^^^^^' a Wnefal- ■ Cameron with 50 'B6W^B;'^^ti^cap^uxmg'2OO. ': armed Maoris is tod thtn. •\- ! v 'TKe^Mt^ythi)i, : .Bcrqn !--- :- after the landing of the;^fcli'^om^tte;riv'e%ib^4"whole position was completely, \ enveloped feyy t^e'V troops, and hardly , a rat could -l^e^eaQag^divJ;, unless it. had ..-bi^^neSof ,the.,p6Ufical^|peci|| f '^ which are warraati^tp'-get tbiougn; a jtejhollt^