"THE TE KOOTI EXPEDITIONS."

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 2, 3 January 1924, Page 3

"THE TE KOOTI EXPEDITIONS."

DESCRIBED BY PROMINENT NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS. NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. Tlic Publishers were in possession ol an unpublished manuscript by tbc late Mr. John I'eaton, giving a history ot tUO Poverty Day Massacre?, aud tlie prolonged warfare that followed that awful tragedy. This history was placed ia the'hands ot Captain Gilbert Mair, N.Z.C., and Captain G. A. Trcecc, N.Z.C., who took an active part iv tlie campaign from the beginning, and were in command ot the two Native Contingent: , , which llnally killed, captured, or dispersed the remnant of Te Kooti's marauding bands, and compelled the rebel leader to take refuge among the Waikato tribes, who at that time were living in sullen isolation, after the Waikato Captain Preece had kept a diary throughout the whole of these operations, and I from the material thus gathered lias been I written a vivid first-hand account of the i most arduous bush fighting recorded in the i annals of New Zealand colonisation. I No more interesting find instructive boos jean be given to a youns New Zra lander 1 than this stirring booi;.