The Victoria Cross.— The Australian and New Zealand • Gazette of the- 13th February announces that “ the Q.ueen h u been graciously pleased to direct that tlie‘ ; decoratiouof the / Victoria Crust may be' conferred .on ‘ Major Charles Heaphy, Auckland Militia, for his gallant conduct at the skirmish on the banks ol t!ie Mangapikoßiver, New Zealand, or|:he lltli -of FebruaryAß64, in 'assisting a wounded soldier of the who had fallen into' a hollow'among the thickest bf tha coh'cealed Maoris.” 1 ': -It-is much easier-to leant in youth than to 1 bo iguprant in age. '
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 16, 6 May 1867, Page 103
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