EARLY HISTORY REVIVED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 72, 24 March 1906, Page 7

EARLY HISTORY REVIVED.

*--? Telegram— Own Ccrreftpondent)

- WELIINGTON, this day. £-*-*__ ceremony of laving the founda *-3w-J Tr\f the new Post office at the £_ ht ' some interesting facte were -Hb.,--? ™c Aeting-Postmaster-G—aerai fy^ , * ? - tt )- in reference to the brrv P* s ? 1 *-- of the Hutt borough j|jgß_ea_j. He said that the eaSy illL. 0 . the Hutt nad been closely SIR-m the New Zealand <__.- --pom rne time of the first settle.till ISSO. The place was Mr. W. Hutt, one of the V-.3W _~ c °mpany. Roads to tie «-__; - s -* B - aa -~ were formed by coapany in the early forties, and c " ffitll the natives had given »-Svt?T?l k - lD 1846 17 settkrS by the natives, and Colonel sat -out a detachment of sol55e saL*j_L 3s£aoris ret -" eated to a n tm---H2 s- ? a * and 20 ° soldiers were left Trasio- p*- 3 -** as a safeguard. There fighting in the locality, tiie 11 -P-oduced seared some of away. At length the ?*_iha-£ta fwas defeated, assistance of a tdenaTy "Maori te -7 P , IQU _i. w hose^ands_o_ i "it_sT_ : tp . -*- oi - d °n socierv by Colonel h l !,- 7is - t -d Engknd with the *S Contingent in 1897. One -fr J«£r -nnabitants of the borough, Oadby, congratulated the &_» w"-"the aceuracv of his narra.or the early days. "