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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 295, 11 December 1923, Page 4

"THE WAIKATO WAR." j By JOHN FEATON. J "TE KOOTI EXPEDITIONS." BT ■■! CAPTAIN GILBERT MAIR. N.Z.C. j AND ! CAPTAIN G. A. PREECE, N.Z.C. . I I A FASCINATING WAR STORY W»TH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS. NO BETTER CHRISTMAS Gin' i j A Completely Revised Edition of Featon's History of the Waikato War, which has been long out of print, and lms realised high prices at sales of early Ifew Zealand books. The test m carefully revised by the late Captain Gilbert Mair, N.Z.C, and Is a stirring account of ♦*«• greet struggle between' Maori and Paken4, which opened ' np the Walkato district for settlement. i Prominence Is given to the services i rendered by the Colonial Forces, organised < to aralst the Imperial Army, under General Cameron. The narrative of the sseanlt on Orakau Pa, and the deflant message of the defenders, "We will fight on for ever! for i •rer! for ever!" is one of the most stirring stories in the history of warfare between British Midlers «nd an 111-armed aboriginal race of warriors.

"THE TE ROOTI EXPEDITIONS. ,, DESCRIBED BY PROMINENT NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. TUe Pubjlshere were In possession of an unpublished manuscript by Ihe late Mr. John Fcnton, giving n history ot the Poverty Bay Maasarre. and the prolonged warfare that followed that awrui tragedy. This history was placed In the hands of Captain Gilbert Mair. N.Z.C.. and Captain G. A. Procce. N.Z.C., who took nn active part In the campaign from the beginning, and were In command of the two Native Contingents, which finally killed, captured,' or dispersed the remnant of Te Kootl's marauding bands, and compelled the rebel leader to take refuge among the Waikafo tribes, who at that time were living In sullen isolation, after the Walkato War. 1 Captain Preece had kept a diary throughout the whole of these operations, nnd from the material, thus gathered has been written a rivld first-hand account of the most arduous bn»h fighting recorded In the > annals of New Zealand colonisation. No more interesting and instructive book can be given to a young New Zealander *s n Christmas Present than this stirring book. TWO HISTORIES IN ONE BOOK. STRIKING WAR PICTURES. PRICE, 7/6 NET. POSTED TO ANY ADDRESS. 4d EXTRA. THE BRETT PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO., AUCKLAND. OBTAINABLE FROM ANY BOOKSELLER. STAR HOTEL, ALBERT STREET. _____ LUNCHEON, 2/6.

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