Funeral of a Chief.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 17 March 1908, Page 5

Funeral of a Chief.

IMPRESSIVE OBSEQUIES. HASTINGS, March 16. This Hons. J. Carroll and J. A. Millar were present at the funeral of Pene Te Ua, at Waipatu pa, yesterday. Fully 1,000 Europeans and 750 natives from all parts of Maoridom attended. There were impressive obsequies, pakeha and native mingling together in> honour of the memory of deceased. The visiting Maoris camped in a "marae," over which a tattered red ensign floated at halfmast, bearing the inscription, "Te Tiritio Waitangi" ("the treaty of Waitangi") presented to the natives in 1?40 by Governor Hobson. Among the chiefs present was a son of Te Heu Heu, that fine barbarian, the last of the old heathen warriors who could neither be coerced nor persuaded to sign the treaty. Mr Carroll'left by special train and joins the Premier at Palmerston North en route for the Waikato. An Interesting Ceremony. NAPIER, March 16. An interesting ceremony took place at the Cathedral yesterday, when the old battalion colours were given intg the. sacred keeping of the church.' There was a monster turn-nut of the volunteers and public, and the ceremony was most impressive. Reported Murder in the Islands. AUCKLAND, March 16. Just as the steamer Den of Ruthven was leaving Suva it was reported that a sugar planter had been murdered by a coolie with a knife. The name of the murdered man cannot be definitely ascertained. It is said to resemble "Rowley."