LATE PENE TE UA.
» .. \. IMPKESSIVE OBSEQUIES, i (By Association.) HASTINGS, this day. Mr. Carroll and Mr. Millar were pres- .: ent at the funeral- of- Pere- Te- Ua, at Waipatu Pah yesterday, when fully 1,000 , Europeans-and 750 natives from all parts • of Maoridom . attended the impressive , obsequies. Pakeha and native mingled together, eulogising the deceased. The . visiting Maoris camped in "Marae," over which floated at half-mast a "tattered . red ensign bearing the-inscription: "Tβ , Tlriti 0 Waitangi" ("The Treaty of Wail tangi"), which was presented to" the natives in 1840 by Governor Hobscn. Among the chiefs present a son of i Te' Heu -Heu, ■ that fine barbarian and the last of the old heathert warriors, who could neither be coerced nor persuaded i. ta-sign the treaty. Mr. Carroll left by the special to join the Premier at Palmer ston, en route jEor the Waikatp,, - -
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1908, Page 5
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