"THE TE KOOTI EXPEDITIONS."

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 December 1923, Page 6

"THE TE KOOTI EXPEDITIONS."

DESCRIBED BY PROMINENT NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. The Publishers were in possession of an unpublished manuscript by the late Mr John Featon, giving a history of the Foverty Bay Massacre, and the prolonged warfare that followed that awful tragedy. This history was placed in the hands or Captain Gilbert Mair. X.Z.C.. and Captain O. A. Preecc, N.Z.C.. who took au active part in the campaign from the beginning, j and were in command of the two Native Contingents, which flnally killed, captured. !or dispersed the remnant of Te Kooti's niflrJiui.linjj liands. adcl compelled tlic rebel leader to take refuge among the Waikato | tribes, who at that time were living in sullen isolation, after the Walfcato War. Captain Preece had kept a diary throughout the whole of these operations, and from the material thus gathered has been written a vivid first-hand account of the most arduous bush fighting recorded in the annuls of New Zealand colonisation. No more interesting and Instructive book can be given to a young New Zealantler as a Christmas Present than this stirring book. |